Another reminder of how unjustified the copyright laws are these days, benefiting more the lawyers than the authors. The book is more than fifty years old and its author is dead, there is no reason for this book not to be in the public domain.

Heksagon wrote:So, how is Go Set a Watchman? Is it worth reading? I could pick it up after Gordimer, after all.

Certainly one of the most random things I've ever read on this board. It really made me chuckle.

(A character in one of my published short stories, a man who's obsessed with his neighbor's wife, imagines that his wife is sleeping with one of her female students who she refers to him as "the Nadine Gordimer girl.")

I have also been avoiding Go Set a Watchman for the reason that Franz Ferdinand offered. It'll probably sit on my shelf until I have a compelling enough reason to pick it up. I think a biopic of Harper Lee could be fascinating, especially if it focused on the events of this final chapter of her life.

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"The mantle of spinsterhood was definitely in her shoulders. She was twenty five and looked it."